Plugins

A Challenging Conversion Project – Drupal to WordPress

On January 31, 2018   /   Convert to WordPress, Plugins, Themes, WordPress, WPML  
Drupal to WordPress conversion

While it hasn’t launched yet, I am on the home stretch of a project with numerous technical challenges and a combination of requirements making it a significant endeavor.   To what do I speak?  Converting an outdated Drupal to WordPress website — maintaining not only all content in three

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Postman SMTP Replaced by Post SMTP

On November 14, 2017   /   Plugins, Security, WordPress  
Postman

SMTP to the rescue for WordPress email non-delivery WordPress has a built-in mail script, but unfortunately, there is a high rate of delivery failure using wp_mail(), as many Internet Service Providers consider it insecure and block.  There is a presumption that the email being sent via WordPress

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WordPress Maintenance: Is it a necessity?

On September 28, 2017   /   Maintenance, Plugins, Security, Themes, WordPress  
website maintenance
WordPress maintenance is not an option Do you think it's wise to never update your personal computer or even your mobile device operating systems and applications?  Likely you would never intentionally skip those updates and taking care to safeguard your devices for anti-virus and making appropriate backups[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://creativebyclark.com/wordpress-maintenance-is-it-a-necessity/" align="left"]
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Check Your WordPress Plugins for SI Captcha

On September 27, 2017   /   Plugins, Security, WordPress  
No Spam wanted
This morning I received a WPMU Blog Post reporting that the very popular plugin SI Captcha has been permanently removed from the WordPress(.org) Plugin Repository.  Why?  Ironically, because the new plugin owner & developer (since June 2017) embedded the plugin with spam code! If you are a[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://creativebyclark.com/check-wordpress-plugins-si-captcha/" align="left"]
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What is WordPress – An Overview Primer

On November 26, 2016   /   Chocolate Penguin, Plugins, Themes, WordPress  
Licensed and official WordPress Logo

About WordPress WordPress is not just for blogs.  While the original intent was the creation of a blogging platform utilized at wordpress.com, the core platform software available through wordpress.org has grown into the most popular CMS (content management system) available cornering over half of the market share of all

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